Organizing Committee

General Chair

  • Akira Hirose

    The University of Tokyo, Japan

  • Hisao Ishibuchi

    Southern University of Science and Technology, China

IJCNN Conference Chair

  • Chrisina Jayne

    Teesside University, UK

IJCNN Technical Chair

  • Zeng-Guang Hou

    Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

  • Barbara Hammer

    Bielefeld University, Germany

  • Teresa Ludermir

    Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil

  • Seiichi Ozawa

    Kobe University, Japan

FUZZ-IEEE Conference Chair

  • Sansanee Auephanwiriyakul

    Chiang Mai University, Thailand

FUZZ-IEEE Technical Chair

  • Nipon Theera-Umpon

    Chiang Mai University, Thailand

  • Keeley Crockett

    Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

  • Mihail Popescu

    University of Missouri, USA

CEC Conference Chair

  • Bing Xue

    Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

CEC Technical Chair

  • Carlos Artemio Coello Coello

    CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico

  • Xiaodong Li

    RMIT University, Australia

  • Juergen Branke

    The University of Warwick, UK

  • Nelishia Pillay

    University of Pretoria, South Africa

  • Mengjie Zhang

    Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

WCCI Chairs

Finance Chair

  • Seiichi Ozawa

    Kobe University, Japan

  • Teijiro Isokawa

Sponsorship Chair

  • Toshiaki Omori

  • Teijiro Isokawa

Exhibition Chair

  • Tomohiro (Tom) Shibata

  • Hideaki Yamamoto

Publication Chair

  • Kazushi Ikeda

Paper Submission Chair

  • Keiichi Horio

  • Hiroaki Wagatsuma

  • Kei Ohnishi

Publicity / Public Relations Chair

  • Junichiro Yoshimoto

  • Kanta Tachibana

International Publicity Chair

  • Jose Maria Alonso-Moral

  • Guilherme Barreto

  • Beatrice Ombuki-Berman

  • Min Jiang

  • Ferrante Neri

  • Zhen Ni

  • Hemant Singh

  • Nishchal K. Verma

Plenary Session Chair

  • Derong Liu

  • Kenji Doya

  • Joao M. Costa Sousa

  • Oscar Cordon

Special Session Chair

  • Robi Polikar

  • Marie-Jeanne Lesot

  • Mika Sato-Ilic

  • Handing Wang

  • Noriyasu Homma

  • Yasue Mitsukura

Tutorial Chair

  • Naoyuki Kubota

  • Jesus Chamorro

  • Chuan-Kang Ting

Workshop Chair

  • Rieko Osu

  • Derek T. Anderson

  • Ying Bi

Panel Session Chair

  • Hitoshi Iba

  • Susana Vieira

  • Yaochu Jin

  • Hava Siegelmann

  • Hiroshi Yamakawa

Conflict-of-Interest Chair

  • Christian Wagner

  • Chee Seng Chan

  • Sanaz Mostaghim

Diversity and Inclusion Chair

  • Dipti Srinivasan

Industry Liaison Chair

  • Asim Roy

  • Hakaru Tamukoh

Competition Chair

  • Anna Wilbik

  • Jialin Liu

Award Chair

  • Masashi Sugiyama

Student Activities Chair

  • Mikiko Sato

  • Hayaru Shouno

  • Eckhard Hitzer

Mobile App and Social Media Chair

  • Hirosato Seki

  • Yasuo Kudo

  • Sou Nobukawa

Technical Tour Chair

  • Toshiyuki Yamane

  • Akira Oyama

  • Eiji Uchibe

  • Shinya Watanabe

On-Line Conference Chair

  • Koichiro Yamauchi

  • Hisashi Handa

  • Hiroyuki Sato

  • Naoki Masuyama

  • Toda Yuuichirou
  • Takashi Shinozaki
  • Tomohiro Harada
  • Seiki Ubukata
  • Yuji Iwahori

Local Arrangement Chair

  • Hiroyuki Torikai

  • Ryosho Nakane

  • Gouhei Tanaka

  • Tomoe Entani

  • Takashi Matsubara

  • Brian Sumali

WCCI Program Coordination Chair

  • Yusuke Nojima

J2C Papers Chairs

  • Sansanee Auephanwiriyakul

    Chiang Mai University, Thailand

  • Yi Mei

    Victoria University of Wellington

  • Toshihisa Tanaka

    Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology